COMING SOON: SPRING/SUMMER 2024
Tales of Fort Denial, Letterpress and Risograph book, letterpress map
Written, designed, printed, and bound by Marianne Dages :: Huldra Press, 2024
Book Size: 7.5” x 5” x .5” closed, 114 pages
Type: OCR A Standard, Adobe Jenson Pro, Futura, and Cheltenham
Images: the images are heavily altered iterations of Gustave Doré’s illustrations for Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
Map: the map’s icons were designed using handset antique letterpress ornaments and type
Binding: Multi-signature open spine french link stitch binding on tyvek tapes
- Cover: letterpress printed on Fabriano Tiziano
- Interior: letterpress and risograph printed on Parchtone and Speckletone paper by French Paper Co.
More information about a boxed, deluxe edition, A Manual for Denial, and a collaboration with L Autumn Gnadinger that expands the world of Fort Denial is coming soon too!
You are outside now.
You begin to look around.
It is dusk and great trees rise before you.
For you’ve come to walk the forest’s edge.
You’ve come to Fort Denial.
- Tales of Fort Denial
Tales of Fort Denial follows the journey of a glitching quester that enters an unknown land/system and is drawn to search for “Fort Denial.” The making of this book has been a two year quest of its own, from conception and research, to writing, design, and finally the production of a hand-sewn letterpress and Risograph printed book. Tales of Fort Denial draws inspiration from 13th century grail quest poems, Renaissance herbals, dreams, word hoards, early video game systems and their manuals, synthesizing these into a long form poem that in turn draws the reader deeper into its world. Welcome to Fort Denial.
